St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-01
SAINT PAUL MATTERS.
The Year of Our Lord One Thousand
Eight Hundred and Eight-Seven
Arrives on Time.
How Many of the Capital City Society La.
dies Propose to Spend the New
Year Day.
About All the Evidence in. in the
Tria, of Martin for MURDER
The Defense.
Recommendation of Auditor Sfaoel
"A Big Year for Real Estate
General Local.

Old Father Time. his aged limbs encased
in fur lined toboggan suit, and with Dig
icicles on his shaggy beard, walked through
;he city streets last night just as the clock
ap in the market house struck midnight.
With one stroke of his scythe, which glist-
ened blue in the frosty moonlight, he cut
the old year to its roots, and, as a reaper
losses aside sheaf Of wheat rpened On
the rich Northwestern prairie, he tossed
1t to lie with the other years
which no has gathered in his
MANY visits since first the world began.
And at the stroke of his swift-running
scythe. it seemed as if he severed a thou
sand electric wires, for over the city in the
still night air bells pealed forth. Ihey
echoed back again from bluff to bluff and
from the frozen river high up against the
skv. The mist which had arisen and lay
like frozen foam beneath the moon, was
brushed away and the stars twlnkled more
brightly as they looked for an instant on
the hoary head of the old man with the
hour-gIass. at the first stroke OF
the bell, the aged man with the
scythe seemed to repent OF having
thrown the year aside and he gathered 1t
quickly I'D again and placed it within his
fur-clad bosom as tenderly as II he loved IL
and could not let it go for awhile into the
heap of forgotten years which he had stored
That instant with a whispering as II OF
bridal silks and laces, new year STOOD De-
fore the aged scythe bearer. Like thlng
of hope it smiled, it laughed, it danced up
and down through the streets. AS the
bells rang it leaped across the city, keeping
time to their merry din, and then 1t MADE
sign of thanksgiving to the hoafy man
n0rth
stars still shone in the great, cold sky; the
frost answered back the thousand
BLUE FLECKS OF LIGHT
and while all the world seemed to wake
and clap its hands, the old man with the
icicle in his beard was suddenly gone. No
word he spake and he made no trial to
stop the boundless Joy Of the young thing
that leaped into life when he swung his
scythe into the old years roots. The
haunts of men seemed silent as the grave,
but if one listened closely he could hear
from a little church down in the busy city,
where the lights had burned dimly al
evening time, the glad greetings OF a few
pious men and women, who, as they sang
HYMNS. grasped each others hands and
smiling, said, ga happy New Year tc
YOU" Then they put out the lights and
went quietly to their homes, shappy, fol
they had seen the birth OF
the New Year when Time came
and took the old one. And the New Veal
danced through the city all night, and wher
the stars were tired, and the clocks tolt
nen and women that it was day, the New
Year said, 1T is my birthday; let all thu
earth observe it. l ain good and pure an6
hopeful and let all the men and WOmeI
and little children keep my birthday witt
me-" and the New Year locked the mart:
of trade and the halls of justice. 1t put ou
the fires in the counting rooms and in the
halls of the exchanges. that all might keel
holiday. The sun looked over the hills ant
smiled on the newborn year. and the fros
king kissed it on the cheek till it blusheC
red at his boldness. The maiden though
of her lover and welcomed the new year
for she knew it would see her wedding day
Little children danced in the sunshine ant
cried. Happy New Year" The merchan
lOlled back in his chair and thought that thu
new wear had promised him more richie
and he was glad But the woman with
black veil over her head did not look III
when the New Year came to her quiet hom
and she would not see it, for the old yea
had seen her both wife and widow, AM
she could not forget that Old Time ha'
taken away the year the most loved to re
member And SO when the New ear came
she sat with bowed head, alone and weep
ing. The preacher looked at the New Yea
and murmured benedicton on 1t, and thu
WoRK-A-DAY WORLD
saw that the New Year was even more glat
than before. The winebibber looks at TIL,
New Year and laughed as he drank fresl
pot of sack The scarlet women Laughed
0oisterousiy and raised the wine cup high
in honor of the New Years birth. The ma
iron smiled half sadly at the New lear anC
welcomed it, but she remembered
how other years had come to her home will
the same bright look, and had gone ava.
sad and lonesome. 1t seemed as if thu
whole world was glad when the New Yea
came. For hours the New Year rollicket
about the streets until it was noon. Al
the world had been greeted with glat
welcome and hidden keep holiday. A
noon Young man stole out from his room
lin little house, his eyes half opened, ant
almost dazed by the New Years light. H
vas newspaper reporter whom the New
Year had not wakened, for he had beer
toiIing beneath an ill-smelling lamp whel
the New Year was born. Slowly lie climbed
the stairs to his work. On his desk lay
note from his chief on which the Ney
Years name had been written. 1t read
Your regular run, with three-quarte
column special on the birth of the New
Year-1SS7."